What’s the deal with those Strauss decals on MLB batting helmets?

Here’s how the Strauss logo wound up on MLB helmets during the playoffs and what it portends for the future.

If you’ve been watching the Major League Baseball postseason, you’ve probably been thinking what most of us have: What’s that Strauss decal on the players’ helmets?

NASA video shows spacecraft's wild ride around ocean world

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is in for a wild ride.

The launch of this mission to explore the ocean world Europa — a Jupiter moon that harbors an ocean perhaps twice the volume of all Earth's seas — was interrupted by the imposing Hurricane Milton, but its 1.8-billion-mile journey is imminent. The craft will make nearly 50 close flybys of Europa's cracked, icy shell, using a number of high-resolution cameras, a ground-penetrating radar, and even a device that will literally sample...

NASA thinks it found a moon light-years away spewing gas

Scientists have never actually seen a moon orbiting a planet other than the ones in this solar system. An exomoon, a companion to an exoplanet, likely would be too tiny and far away for telescopes to resolve. 

But a new NASA study may have found a clue that one is orbiting a planet some 635 light-years from Earth. The inference comes from a vast sodium cloud spotted in space. Whatever is causing it produces about 220,000 pounds of sodium per second. 

The research suggests a rocky moon...

Out Of All The Cocktails On This Menu, Which One Truly Hits The Spot?

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The Origins of the Climate Haven Myth

In a world of increasingly powerful hurricanes and other rising climate threats, those with vested interests in promoting certain locations have sold the public a dream.

Your daily NFL trivia game, Saturday edition

Think you can figure out what NFL player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out.

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation in-5 daily trivia game, and we’re returning to our system of a new article each day for the game.

We tried using a single article for the game, updated with the latest game each day, but it was creating a bit of an unwieldy experience in the comments. So, we’ll have the current day’s game plus the previous three days in each...

Russia is recruiting African women to make drones to use in Ukraine. Here’s what you need to know

Four women described long shifts of up to 12 hours, with haphazard days off, but some suggested they could tolerate the work if they could send money home.

About 200 women ages 18 to 22 from across Africa have been recruited to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students assembling thousands of Iranian-designed attack drones to be launched into Ukraine.

What to do if you lose your phone

Here are steps you can take before and after your phone goes missing.

Phones hold so much of our digital lives—emails, social media and bank accounts, photos, chat messages and more—that if they ever get stolen or go missing, it can cause major disruption beyond just the loss of a device.

In some places, phone thefts have surged so much it’s now an everyday problem, with thieves on electric bikes snatching them out of pedestrians’ hands, swiping them off restaurant tables or...

Flipping the script: Where others fall, women ascend glass cliffs and win

Consider lessons from the many women capably striding along the edge of glass cliffs: how they’re often winning and actively rewriting the rules for future leaders.

President Joe Biden’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris saw Google searches for glass cliff triple, and conversations around this loaded term are back in the headlines. But with Harris now leading in the polls, the vibe may be changing. 

How to use Passwords, Apple iOS 18’s new iPhone password management app

‘Passwords,’ Apple’s new password management app on iOS 18, is definitely worth checking out. Here’s why—plus four easy ways to get the best out of it.

Apple iOS 18, launched in September, is one of the most important updates to the iPhone’s operating system in the device’s history. Why? Because it lays the groundwork for Apple Intelligence, Apple’s artificial intelligence platform, which will power the phone in the years ahead. iOS 18 also adds several new features to the...

This AI can think like an engineer—and it just designed a spaceship engine

Noyron software harnesses the creativity and problem-solving of engineers to design advanced machinery autonomously.

Looking at all the stuff surrounding Lin Kayser in his Dubai office, it’s easy to assume he’s a rocket scientist working on a spaceship to escape Earth’s gravity. Drawings, plans, and prototypes seemingly stolen from an interstellar alien probe frame Kayser on Zoom. But the cofounder of Leap 71 is no rocket scientist—even if he looks like he could play one in a movie.

Why it’s dangerous to have a company without hierarchy, according to pioneers of Google’s Startup Accelerator

In their book, Martin Gonzalez and Joshua Yellin explore why so many startups fail—and what those that succeed do right.

Many entrepreneurs are inspired by romantic conceptions of how great startup life can be, and are looking for an exit path from the typical culture of a big company. They dream about getting rid of bureaucracy, hierarchies, irrelevant policies, unfair inequalities, and all the other corporate irritations. The appeal of reinventing all this is especially strong for...

31 TikTok Beauty Products We Found *For You* (So You Can Be In The Know Without Being In The Trenches)

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How Do You Feel About Taylor's WAG Outfits From The Past Year?

I NEED all of these looks in my closet ASAP, please and thank you. ????

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From Grilled Cheese To Fondue, I Want You To Give Your Hot Takes In This "Best Cheesy Dish" Food Fight

Even though I am lactose-intolerant, I will always order extra cheese on my pizza. ?

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37 Clever Products For Your Bedroom That Will Make Your Life Easier

If you like to snack in bed, this mess-preventing "snack dispenser" has got your name written all over it.

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33 Things That’ll Make You Feel Like A Million Bucks Even Though You Bought Them For A Bargain

We want you (and your wallet) to be happy.

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A Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines

It's hard enough creating one air-gap-jumping tool. Researchers say the group GoldenJackal did it twice in five years.

Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech

Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing.

The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters

Plus: New details emerge in the National Public Data breach, Discord gets blocked in Russia and Turkey over alleged illegal activity on the platform, and more.